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MAT FITT ING. APPLICATION FILED AUGJL I913.

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ARTHUR C. HAYDEN, OF BROOKTON', MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HAYDEN &

GLEMONS, INQ, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSA- GHUSETTS.

MAT-FITTING.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7

' Application filed August 6, 1918. Serial No. 248,588.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ART UR C. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brockton, county of Plymouth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Mat-Fittings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts in each of the several views.

This invention relates to mats for door ways, passages, and the like, and particularlyto a type of mat made up of links strung on wires or rods, such links according to present practice being made up largely, from pieces of died outsole leather assembled together to make the requisite width of the links. In mats of this or like type an objection has hitherto been encountered in the fact that the edges thereof present an abrupt ledge of some little height apt to catch the foot of pedestrians to disarrange the mat and also cause annoyance. The object of the present invention is to provide a fitting or attachment adapted to be quickly and easily applied to the sides of such a mat and eliminating this abrupt ledge or shoulder at the sides of the mat, substituting therefor a surface presenting a gradual easy incline from the floor level to the surface of the mat. To this end I LQfQV'ide a. clip preferably stamped from plate metal and adapted to be engaged with -flmlQQp d f th wires or rods on wlnch the mat links are assembled. The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the in vention will more fully appear from the following detailed description, and the dlstinctive features of novelty will be pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawlngs: Figure 1 is a plan view showing a p0rt1on of a mat having the fitting of my invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectlon on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of fitting itself attached; and

Fig. 4: is a plan view showmga portion of the mat equipped with a modified form of the fitting of my invention.

In the portion of the mat shown the links are indicated at 10 each made up of a series,

shown as four, of died out sole leather the clip pieces 11, these links being strung on rods or stout wires 12 in alternating relation and according to known practice. The rods 12 are according to usual practice bent around at the sides of the mat as indicated at 13 so that the rod passing through one line of holes of the mat links is returned through the next adjacent line. In practice the link elements 10 are assembled quite closelyon;

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rod and the adjacent side of the link as in I dicated at 15. From this down turned lip the top or tread portion 16 of the fitting extends at a somewhat acute angle downward-so that as the lip 15 is pressed in place the top portion 16 presents a surface sloping gradually downward from. a height nearly equal to the thickness of the mat down to the plane of the bottom of the mat, i. 6-, the floor surface. For reinforcing and stifiening the top or tread portion 16 of the fitting, the sides thereof are extended and down turned as ears 17, the lower edges of which are in the plane of the bottom of the.

top portion 16, i. 6., flush with the base of the mat when the fitting isassenrbled therei on as indicated at 17 With the fitting thus produced, some little space is left between the adjacent fitting clips as seen in Fig. 1, each clip being thus some little less in width than the length of the links. For better securing the fittings thus formed, in assembled relation with the mat and against displace ment I provide notches 18 in the ends of the lips 15 in position to fit the corners of the rods 12, it being understood that as shown the lips 15 are of the full width of the side bends 13 so that the bent corners of the rods fit closely into said notches 18 at each side. In Fig. 4: I show a form of the invention wherein clip fittings 14 are employed which may be similar in all other respects to the fittings 14, but havin the top portions 16 thereof relatively widened so that when fittings of this type are assembled in place on the mat their adjacent ends come nearly together, leaving only a small space therebetween as required to permit thefolding up of the mat. It will be understood that the clip fittings of my invention are not only readily attachable to mats already made as well as to new mats, but that said fittings are also as readily detachable and that they may be applied to the mat from either side, i. e., whenever it is desir d to reverse the mat, these fittings may be simply taken off and put on from the other side. lam aware that the invention may be em- 1 bodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attri- 'butes thereof, and I therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettel's Patent is:

1'. A fitting formats, comprising a memberpresen-ting an inclined topsurface, and having a lip down turned at an acute angle with respect' tosaid surface for engaging Ween the bend of the mat rod and an adjacent link, said lip having notches at its opposite ends to receive and fit corners of the mat rod as stated.

2. A fitting for mats, comprising a plate ARTHUR o. HAYDEN. 

